A (Royal) Theater outing…

It’s probably not a secret that I miss Vienna as a post. A lot. I missed it while we were in DC. And I missed it here. Sometimes hindsight kind of does that to you. It’s not that I’m not enjoying Copenhagen, but somehow, there’s something about that first post that sets a bit of standard that you judge everything else by, kind of like a first love. Some things of course, after our first loves turn out better, and turn out for the better. But some things just don’t quite measure up – probably because we judge them somewhat unfairly. That’s how memories are I guess.

One of the things I miss most about Vienna is being down the street – literally – from the Vienna Opera. Big and grand and full of performances. I went with guests…with friends..with family…with just about anybody and sometimes all by myself. I didn’t mind. The whole experience was enough for me. There was something about this winter that got me out of the groove a bit and one day I decided that I had had enough – there was no reason why we couldn’t get out to enjoy Copenhagen’s theaters in the same way.

And no surprise, it’s not Vienna. Nothing but Vienna can be that. But across the past couple of weeks we’ve been pretty good about getting out there to try new things and it all started with an outing to the Royal Theater for the premiere of the ballet Napoli. The ballet was good, but the second act was just stunning with the “underwater” scenes and the production as a whole did a great job of conveying a warmer, sunnier clime during the deepest winter. It’s still playing a few days through March if you’re in Copenhagen and can catch it.

And in that picture below, in the box on the right, leaning over in the gray dress? I know it’s fuzzy but it was taken directly across from my seat. That’s the queen. As in Queen Margrethe of Denmark. Pretty cool right? Her enthusiasm for the production was infectious, and it was just as fun to watch her elegance and composure as watching the ballet itself (and as a side note, the orchestra? AMAZING). Now as I recall, Vienna may have delivered many things in my memory, but royalty wasn’t one of them. For that, I just have to stay right here in Copenhagen.

Comments

The building is beautiful and I love your photographs, but I must comment on the guest of honor…Royals are my (semi-secret) hobby, and I love Queen Margrethe (she's in my top five favorite royals of the world). Who can't love a Queen who translated the Lord of the Rings into Danish, and did the illustrations?! She's so fabulous, I'll even forgive her for designing her own clothes 😉

The Queen makes her own clothes? I had no idea! I did know that she paints and I missed her recent exhibition due to the travel but looking forward to making sure that I don't miss that one going forward. Maybe her fashion retrospective is due for an appearance too!

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